How can CHBs Use Their Community Health Plans? Making a Plan that Works for You and Your Community Jimi Kaye, Manager, Community Health Planning, CEHHA

Overview Why use the Plan? What should be in the Plan? How to make recommendations you can use How to turn them into actions for your CHB

Why Use the Plan? In order for your plan to work for you, it should *include* you If it doesn’t engage the CHB members, then it’s not really a plan for the CHB Image Source:

Health Authorities Act

Writing Community Health Plans CHBs write what they’ve heard about concerns in the community and how to address them Recommendations for the District Health Authority, partners or government about formal health system programs and services -AND- A list of actions that CHB itself will take to promote health and educate the public about the issues of concern Image Source:

You are Mirrors of Your Communities Image Source:

What Can the Plan Look Like? Healthy Eating:_________________________ You Told Us: Your Suggestions for Improvement: The Health Research Says: We Advise CEHHA to: As a Community Health Board, we will: CEHHA will respond by:

Top 3 to 5 priorities

SMART goals S pecific S pecific M easurable M easurable A chievable A chievable R ealistic R ealistic T imely T imely

Get Your Plans on Your Agendas This is the key piece of keeping the Plan at the forefront of your work You might even make each of your top priority areas its own standing agenda item Keeping an action log and reviewing outstanding items at each meeting can also be helpful Bring in guests from your community partners to give updates on the work you’re doing with them Celebrate and brag about these relationships!

Staff Work with CHBs on Action Plans CHB Staff work with the CHBs to develop action plans to implement the CHB recommendations for in their communities This is your plan to guide the CHBs’ activities over the year Suggest that a copy of the Plan and Action Plans be at the ready for each CHB meeting Image Source:

Where the Actions can be Taken District recommendations taken to Board, Managers and staff for inclusion in Business and operational plans - where feasible CHB recommendations - take Plans to community sessions… e.g. Active transportation, Recreation, provincial strategies Municipal planning, etc. …and advocate for the CHB recommendations there

Summary Get your plans / recommendations (DHA and CHB) on your monthly agendas Write specific actions (what, how, who, when…) - bite sized pieces! Work with community partners / champions – sustainable action comes from within the community Put yourself out there - go where the people are – and advocate for your recommendations

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